Brian Fuata creates a new improvisational performance that attempts to correspond with the materials, live works, and ephemera encountered during research into mail art pioneer Ray Johnson’s expansive archives.

Johnson, a seminal Pop Art figure and early conceptualist in the 1950s, has left behind a vast collection of letters, mail art, collages, and other materials that preserve his vital legacy now twenty years after his death. Working in concert with his estate, and within his own practice of correspondence via email performance, Fuata will present a series of live and mediated works that trace long-distance relationships.

Image credit: Brian Fuata, Points of Departure 1 to 3, 2014 - Photo by Andrew Curtis, courtesy of the artist and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia

Credits

Co-presented with the Estate of Ray Johnson. Supported by Australia Council for the Arts.